Also:
'They called us liars' –
mother (Brisbane Times) Nov 9 - A mother has emotionally recalled how a former St Paul's School
headmaster accused her, her son, and an alleged abuse victim of lying when they
tried to raise complaints about a paedophile teacher.

Solicitor asked victim
not to mention Hollingworth (Brisbane
Times) Nov 9 - A solicitor acting for former Governor-General Peter Hollingworth asked
a child sex abuse victim to change his testimony to remove all references to
her client, a royal commission has heard.

Headmaster knew
counsellor shared penis stories (Brisbane
Times) Nov 13 - A former Brisbane private school headmaster has admitted he was told a
school counsellor was sharing information about the size of boys' penises more
than a year before the counsellor was revealed as a paedophile.

Hollingworth 'washed his
hands' of complaints (Brisbane
Times) Nov 13 - Staff at a Brisbane private school were told former governor-general
Peter Hollingworth had "washed his hands" of sexual abuse concerns
and the school would be dealing with them "in-house", a royal commission
has heard.

Kevin Rudd blasts George
Pell over climate change(Sydney Morning Herald) Nov 11 - Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has unleashed an excoriating attack
on George Pell, accusing Australia's most senior Catholic of being a
"radical climate sceptic" and saying the cardinal's "inflated
rhetoric" can no longer go unchallenged on the role of the Church in the
climate change debate.

Islamic State video
threatens Russia (Brisbane Times)
Nov 13 - Moscow: Islamic State has released a video threatening attacks in
Russia "very soon" in revenge for Russian bombing in Syria, the SITE
monitoring group said on Thursday, and the Kremlin said Russian state security
services would study the material.

Islamic State's attacks
on Yazidis constitute genocide: report (The Age, Melbourne) Nov 13 - Washington:Islamic State has
been and is continuing to perpetrate a genocide against the Yazidi minority in
northern Iraq, a new US Holocaust Memorial Museum report says, citing a
"preponderance of the evidence" found during a recent trip to the
region.

Kurdish forces seize
Iraq's Sinjar town from Islamic State (The Age, Melbourne) Nov 14 - Outside Sinjar: Kurdish forces backed by US air strikes seized the
northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness
said, in one of the most significant counter-attacks since the militants swept
through the north last year.

Paris shootings: many
dead in multiple attacks(Sydney Morning Herald) Nov 14 - At least 153 people were killed on Friday night in Paris, including at
least 70 hostages at a theatre, in seven coordinated terrorist attacks across
the French capital by masked and silent gunmen wielding AK-47 assault rifles.

Paris attack heightens security
fears for climate summit (The
Australian) Nov 14 - The attacks in Paris confirmed what French security services have
feared for months: that the country would be targeted by another devastating
attack like the deadly spree that left 17 dead in Paris in January.

Paris attacks: shootings
and explosions leave at least 158 dead (The Guardian, Australia) Nov 14 - At least 158 people have died in Paris in a seemingly coordinated wave
of gun and suicide bomb attacks, prompting the French president, François
Hollande, to declare a state of emergency and bring in controls on the
country’s borders.

European leaders link
terror threats to immigration (The
Guardian, Australia) Nov 15 - A Syrian passport found near the body of one of those responsible for
the terror attacks in Paris belonged to someone allegedly posing as one of the
hundreds of thousands of refugees entering Greece from Turkey in recent months,
the police ministry in Athens said.

Islamic State 'goes
global' with Paris attacks (The
Guardian, Australia) Nov 15 - The downing of the Metrojet Airbus full of Russian holidaymakers over
Egypt two weeks ago – probably the work of an Islamic State affiliate there –
indicated an evolution in the group’s strategic thinking.

ISLAM

We need to call out the
double standards in Australia's anti-discrimination laws (The Age, Melbourne) Nov 11 – (Opinion: Mariam Veiszadeh) Over the past year, women across the
country have been assaulted, spat on, had their prams kicked, have been punched
from behind, had abuse hurled at them, had hot coffee thrown in their face,
told to leave an entertainment venue, assaulted and thrown off a train,
verbally intimidated, had their cars vandalised and have been forced to
restrict their public movements out of fear.

Ten glorious church
conversions (The Age,
Melbourne) Nov 15 - Open the gate to the Tuscan-inspired courtyard garden with water
fountain and be swept away by the romance of this converted church in Curlewis.